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AUTHOR
Meyerowitz, Joanne, 1954-.
TITLE
A war on global poverty : the lost promise of redistribution and the rise of microcredit [electronic resource] / Joanne Meyerowitz.
IMPRINT
Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2021.
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (x, 311 p.) : ill.
SERIES
Gale eBooks.
NOTE
Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENT NOTE
part I. A war on global poverty -- part II. How women became the deserving poor -- part III. The microcredit moment.
SUMMARY
This book provides an account of U.S. involvement in campaigns to end global poverty in the 1970s and 1980s. From the decline of modernization programs to the rise of microcredit, it looks beyond familiar histories of development and explains why antipoverty programs increasingly focused on women as the deserving poor.
SUBJECT
Economic assistance.
SUBJECT
Economic development.
SUBJECT
Globalization -- Economic aspects.
SUBJECT
Microfinance.
SUBJECT
Poverty.
DISCIPLINE
Economic.
DISCIPLINE
Internet Resources.
LINK
Available via Gale Virtual Reference Library. Click here to access (Password can be acquired from eClass public announcement)
ISBN
9780691219974 (ebk.).
Location
Call Number
Status
World Wide Web
339.46 MEY ebook
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